Biography Chafik Abboud

Chafic Abboud was born in Lebanon in 1926
to a wealthy middle-class Lebanese family and his youth was an idyll of
summers in the mountains, and winters in Beirut; at the time the
'Riviera' of the Middle East. There is little that is dark or
melancholic, politicized or inflammatory in his work. Chafic Abboud is
a pure artist, taking a still life, a landscape or a memory of his
childhood and depicting it in a style that owes much to Abstract
Expressionism - his works are always balanced, with one color
complementing or offsetting another.

Having
moved to Paris after graduating from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts
in 1947, Abboud fr
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